Hannah (Thomas) Brewster (1698 - 1788)

Born 30 Aug 1698 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Wrestling Brewster — married 12 Jul 1722 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 20 Aug 1788 at age 89 in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Hannah, daughter of James and Mary (Tilden) Thomas, was born at Duxbury, MA on August 30, 1698. She is a descendant of Mayflower passenger RICHARD WARREN.

Hannah married Wrestling, son of Wrestling and Mary (unknown) Brewster, on July 12, 1722. They resided in Plymouth, MA where they had their oldest child, Wrestling. They removed to Kingston, MA probably between 1725 and 1726.

They lived on Brewster Lane at Kingston where they remained. They had six more children here; five of their seven children reached adulthood.

Hannah lost her husband on January 1, 1767. She remained a widow until her death on August 20, 1788. They are both buried at Old Burying Ground in Kingston.

Children

Wrestling and Hannah (Thomas) Brewster had the following (7) children:^[1]

1. Wrestling, born 29 August 1724
2. Isaac, born 17 March 1727
3. Thomas, born 23 December 1729
4. Elijah, born 10 September 1732
5. Elisha, born 9 February 1734; died unmarried
6. Hannah, born 20 October 1737
7. Mary, born 27 November 1740; died unmarried

Sources

1. ↑ Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, comp., John Bradley Arthaud, MD, FASG, et. al., revs., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Richard Warren, Volume 18, Part 2, 2nd Ed., (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2011), p. 132

• Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, comp., Judith H. Swan, rev., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Richard Warren, Volume 18, Part 1, 3rd Ed., (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004), p. 83

• Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, comp., John Bradley Arthaud, MD, FASG, et. al., revs., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Richard Warren, Volume 18, Part 2, 2nd Ed., (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2011), pp. 131-132

• Barbara Lambert Merrick, comp., Scott Andrew Bartley, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Elder William Brewester, Volume 24, Part 1, (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014), pp. 386-391

• Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850: Vital Records of Duxbury Massachusetts to the year 1850, (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), (birth)

• Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850: Vital Records of Duxbury Massachusetts to the year 1850, (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), (marriage)

• Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850: Vital Records of Kingston Massachusetts to the year 1850, (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), (death)

• Inscriptions Copied from the Burying Ground at Kingston, Mass.. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.)

• Find A Grave, Memorial #37089819

• Diary of Rev. John Robinson (Connecticut State Library) Page 2

• The Genealogical Advertiser (Lucy Hall Greenlaw, Cambridge, Mass., 1899) Vol. 2, Page 3.

• Vital Records of Kingston, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1911) Page 143.